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of my lungs until I’m hoarse, but not this trip.
I was only thinking, should I turn in front of a
fast semi-truck, or simply plunge off into the
Tennessee River? No, not the river, I might
live through that, and then I would still have
to build the Willys Jeep Wagon. What to do,
what to do?

Back in Nashville it sat outside my shop
two days before I could even get the courage
up to look at it. The third day, my son Ethan
Ring and side-kick all in one, came over and
said, Dad, don’t you think we need to dive
into this thing and get it over with? We
started dismantling it piece by piece, and my
only hope was that a brain storm would hit TOMMY RING
me at some point. That some point didn’t RINGRODS.COM
come until we lifted the body off the frame. I RINGRODS@GMAIL.COM
was blessed with a mental picture of what it

was to be, and that is where we will pick up
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